Unusually there was one clear winner this month but the surprise fades away when one realizes why as it is yet another example of Religion being involved in the sexual abuse, and justification and/or cover up of the sexual abuse, of Children. Despite some votes...
The following video is on our YouTube channel. It’s Professor Brian Bocking at a UCC debate last year, proposing the motion ‘that this house rejects atheism’. For context, Professor Bocking founded UCC’s Study of Religions Department, which studies theories of religion and atheism in a...
Another month, another Atheists in the Pub! It’s happening in MacTurcaill’s on Tara Street, near Tara St. Station from 7pm Thursday 21st of July in the snug area located at the centre of the bar. If you would like to set up a meeting in...
In the true style of it being impossible for Atheists to agree on just about everything, Junes believer award was a three way split between the comical, the serious and the tragic showing that the vagaries of religion can leave us open mouth at just...
by Jane Donnelly The Mater Dei Institute is at it again. Link to the pdf of their Submission to the Forum on Education In their Submission to the Forum on Education they again recommend the Toledo Guiding Principles but state that this education cannot...
On Sunday 5 June 2011, the World Atheist Convention in Dublin discussed and adopted the following declaration on secularism and the place of religion in public life. Please discuss and promote it with your friends and colleagues, and if you are a a member of...
Here’s a round-up of some of the thoughts on the conference from various people around the web. UPDATE: A Gloriously Godless Weekend (Part 1 )from Adventures of a Middle-Aged Boy is up: “The weekend began – as all weekends should – on Thursday.” Part 2...
Another month of two winners. Can Atheists not agree on anything. Herding cats indeed 🙂 The first of the winners is Kirk Cameron… the guy who on a hot day once started talking to himself in cars and decided that rather than this meaning he...
This weekend, June 3-5, the World Atheist Convention will take place in Dublin. On Sunday we will discuss and adopt the Dublin Declaration on Religion in Public Life. This will be a follow-up to the Copenhagen Declaration that was adopted at last year’s convention in...
In spite of the impending Rapture, tickets to the World Atheist Conference are now sold out. We’re looking forward to meeting you all in Dublin on the 3rd of June.
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